Jersey: Vows and champagne

At the vineyard we were directed straight to the wedding – hey, vineyard lady, what tipped you off that we weren’t here for the tour? The suit, dresses and hat maybe? We joined other suitably attired guests by the vineyard restaurant and grabbed drinks to keep us going before the bride arrived. The bride’s mother [...]

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Jersey: Saunas and tortilla chips

We slept well after the sea air and G&Ts of the night before. In the morning we headed down to the dining room. Well, actually it was a case of going down one staircase and then back up another – surely they could have built us a bridge or secret tunnel to get us across [...]

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Jersey: Rock pools and crab cakes

After our pit stop for food we went down onto the beach at Grève de Lecq, feeling Jersey sand between our toes for the first time. The beach had a number of rocky outcrops, some of them dressed with vivid green grassy seaweed and in the sometimes very deep crevices were rockpools. We found beadlet [...]

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Jersey: Aeroplanes and ice cream

The same day that I headed to Jersey for Helen’s wedding, Mum and Dad left for La Rochelle, only they had the bad luck of having to leave at unreasonable o’clock to catch the Eurostar train. Meanwhile my alarm was set for 8am, giving me a leisurely three quarters of an hour to roll out [...]

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Back from Jersey

A very good time was had by all. The weather treated us kindly, Helen and Steve had a beautiful wedding and now I’ve got 600 photos to whittle down to something sensible …

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